I think the Desoutter Aircraft Company was run by 2 Brothers

And, just to tie you in with Phil’s (:D :dev2: 😀 :diablo: Phil) post, after one of them was injured in a flying accident they turned to building prosthetic limbs. I think you can guess where this is going now…

Adrian

IIRC there are original Upkeep mines at RAFM, Elvo and at Brenzett….any more around?

TT

There must be dozens (OK, maybe a dozen or so) somewhere – a number were retrieved from Reculver in the 1970s, in the marsh behind the beach where they had been bounced up into the lagoon from seawards, and at least one more was retrieved from the opposite side of the towers in the 1990s. If only I’d known when I was beachcombing there in 1991-3…

Adrian

Is that somewhere between a T.7 and a T.8? 🙂

Spot on – I forget whether it is a T7 with an F8 tail or an F8 with a T7 nose, but it’s MB’s unofficial designation. See page 11.

http://www.martin-baker.com/Acrobat/The_Chalgrove_Meteors.pdf

Adrian

Meteor! Too high to see which one, as it was doing its best to blend in with the sky, but given the proximity to Chalgrove surely got to be a T7 1/2?

Adrian

I would have thought that blindingly obvious to all but one of any given village.

OWWWWW! Walked right into that, didn’t I…

I could send one of my Box Brownies round – at 8 shots to a roll there’d be only a third of the likelihood of it going AWOL of a 24-shot job.

On second thoughts, maybe not.

Adrian

Blimey – that’s going to turn a few heads on the A55! I’d like to see the insurance claims …”when I was overtaken by a Shackleton in the outside lane, at which point I piled into the back of the person in front who’d braked because he thought he was hallucinating”…:D

Unless the Disco has been washed on too hot a cycle, it also gives you a rather better idea of just how much bulk there is in one of these things than standing next to one on it’s legs. Good job there’s some big sheds at Llandwrog!

Adrian

Well you weren’t at the event that makes Kev (and a number of others too) so angry.
I was and I know why it still angers him (and them).

What should have been a moment of peace and remembrance almost blown apart by a certain persons inane chattering.

A.

Many of us on this forum weren’t there, and to anyone like me who wasn’t there – especially if they do not see Andy’s post – the reactions that Ollie gets from some people look like park drunks shouting abuse at passers-by.

As someone who wasn’t there, and have never met any of the protagonists, I can’t comment on whether or not the attacks are justifiable. However those factors probably make me representative of most of the forum in the sense that they weren’t there and haven’t met any of you either! Carrying ills from the real world onto this forum means that you are shouting things that a few people recognise for what they are, and to the thousands of other people reading just look like random savagery.

Please – think about what it makes you look like in the eyes of people who don’t know before you steam into people! Do you really want to look like a total a*se across the whole forum? If you can’t sort it out, don’t turn the forum into a sh*tflinging contest. It doesn’t make you look big, and it doesn’t make the forum look big or clever either.

I’m sorry if I’ve upset anyone’s feelings by posting this, but I just don’t think this is the right place for abusing people, whatever the reason.

Adrian